After September 11, 2001, U.S. officials authorized the cruel treatment and torture of prisoners held in Afghanistan, Iraq, Guantanamo, and the CIA's secret prisons overseas.

This database documents the U.S. government's official experiment with torture. At present, the database contains well over 100,000 pages of government documents obtained primarily through Freedom of Information Act litigation and requests filed by the ACLU, and through litigation of Salim v. Mitchell, a lawsuit brought by the ACLU on behalf of the survivors and the family of a dead victim of the CIA torture program. To learn more about the database, please read the About and Search Help pages. If you're a developer, you can also access this data through our API.

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Dec. 30, 2004 | OLC | ACLU-RDI 6572
This December 30, 2004 OLC memo from Daniel Levin interprets the federal criminal prohibition against torture. This memo supersedes the August 2002 memorandum ("Standards of Conduct under 18 U.S.C. §§ 2340–2340A") in its entirety.
Aug. 31, 2016
Legal Memo
Daniel B. Levin
Deputy Attorney General
Dec. 13, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6220
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding the imminent release of a letter written by Thomas Harrington on the treatment of Guantanamo Bay detainees.
June 15, 2011
Email
Thomas J. Harrington, Valerie E. Caproni, Marion E. Bowman
Dec. 28, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6250
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding the collection and compilation of any and all Counterterrorism Division documents related to detainees at Guantanamo, Iraq, and Afghanistan, and particularly documentation of any abuse of detainees ...
Dec. 16, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6308
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding information about the Counterterrorism Law Unit II ("CTLU II").
June 15, 2011
Email
Julie F. Thomas
Valerie E. Caproni
Valerie E. Caproni, Julie F. Thomas
Dec. 12, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6418
This document is a heavily redacted email exchange between Valerie Caproni and another official with the subject line "battlefield advice."
Dec. 07, 2010
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
Dec. 31, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6053
The document is a heavily redacted daily situation report from the Iraqi Task Force, detailing personnel numbers and status as well as a variety of figures related to detainees during the reporting period - including captures, transfers, and ...
Dec. 30, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6052
The document is a heavily redacted daily situation report from the Iraqi Task Force, detailing personnel numbers and status as well as a variety of figures related to detainees during the reporting period - including captures, transfers, and ...
Dec. 29, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6051
The document is a heavily redacted daily situation report from the Iraqi Task Force, detailing personnel numbers and status as well as a variety of figures related to detainees during the reporting period - including captures, transfers, and ...
Dec. 28, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6049
The document is a heavily redacted daily situation report from the Iraqi Task Force, detailing personnel numbers and status as well as a variety of figures related to detainees during the reporting period - including captures, transfers, and ...
Dec. 26, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6047
The document is a heavily redacted daily situation report from the Iraqi Task Force, detailing personnel numbers and status as well as a variety of figures related to detainees during the reporting period - including captures, transfers, and ...